Chicago native Danny Pudi and “Community” fans got a big surprise Friday during a flurry of news about what we’ll be watching on the TV networks this fall. The beleaguered NBC sitcom has been renewed for fifth season.

“Wild times and I truly didn't know what to expect. But that's always been our show--we never know what to expect,” Pudi wrote in an email. “Gotta thank the fans [and] my mom … for cheering on the Greendale gang. GO BULLS!”

Did I mention Pudi’s from Chicago? The city’s film and TV industry also received good news Friday: At least five shows set to air during the 2013-14 season will be filmed in Chicago, the Tribune reports.

NBC’s “Chicago Fire” will be back, and with it a police-themed spin-off series called “Chicago PD.” NBC also picked up the new midseason series “Crisis,” a political thriller starring Dermot Mulroney and Gillian Anderson.

ABC picked up two Chicago-filmed pilots. “Betrayal” stars James Cromwell and Hannah Ware, who already knows Chicago after filming two seasons of “Boss” here. She plays a woman who has an affair with the lawyer squaring off against her husband in court. “Mind Games,” which was called “Influence” when the pilot filmed here in the spring, stars Steve Zahn and Christian Slater as brothers who run an agency that uses psychological manipulation to solve clients’ problems.

ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC and the CW will make their official announcements during their upfront presentations this week, but here’s a list of shows that have been renewed or canceled so far, and the pilots that have been picked up to become series.

Upfront scheduleMonday, May 13: NBC and FoxTuesday, May 14: ABCWednesday, May 15: CBSThursday, May 16: CW

Calling its 2013-14 schedule Fox’s “biggest investment in original programming in our history,” Entertainment Chairman Kevin Reilly on Monday presented the network’s plans to launch original shows over all 12 months of the year.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel's getting his own reality show. OK, that's not exactly true, but apparently Rahmbo's trips to Hollywood have been paying off in bigger ways than with gifts and campaign contributions. He's about to get a publicity boost, too: CNN has ordered and eight-part docuseries called "Chicagoland."

A Civil War-period coat worn by a nurse — a woman from a prominent Mathews County family who some believe was the only woman to be commissioned as a captain in the Confederate Army — is among the nominees for Virginia's Top 10 Endangered Artifacts program.

NAVAL STATION NORFOLK — The Navy on Saturday commissioned the USS John Warner, adding a 12th Virginia-class submarine to the fleet and celebrating the legacy of its namesake, the retired senator who was hailed as a statesman.